, treating of
practical ethics, parts of which are still extant, in the form of a selection, entitled
, from which we may infer that the
whole work must have been of the highest order of excellence.
Editions
The extant portion of it was first printed by Lucas Holstenius in his collection of
the ancient writers on practical morals, Rome, 1638, 8vo., Lugd. Bat. 1639, 12mo.;
then by Gale, in his Opusc. Mythol. Cant. 1670, 8vo.,
Amst. 1688, 8vo., also with the Oxford edition of Maximus Tyrius, 1677,
12mo., and with Wetstein's Epictetus, Amst. 1750, 12mo.; in a
separate form by J. Swedberg, Stockholm, 1682, 8vo., and more correctly by I.
A. Schier, Lips. 1754, 8vo., and lastly by J. C. Orelli, in his Opusc. Graec. Vet. Sentent. Lips. 1819, 8vo.